Environmental Economics and Policy Minor
Also available via Ecampus.
The Environmental Economics and Policy minor offers students an opportunity to expand their skill sets in preparation for careers in environmental consulting, resource management, and policy analysis. This minor emphasizes the development and application of economic tools towards identifying the role that humans play in affecting environmental problems, and how policy solutions can be developed that alter human behavior and improve environmental quality.
The Environmental Economics and Policy minor is available to students who are not pursuing the EEP major.
Minor Code: 962
Each minor in the Applied Economics Department is created to provide students within and outside the discipline the opportunity to study a secondary area. Each minor requires 27 credits of course work in addition to the student's major. At least 12 of the 27 credits must be upper division. No credits counted toward the minor can be courses also counted toward the student's major.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Required Courses | ||
AEC 250 | *INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY | 3-4 |
or ECON 201 | *INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS | |
AEC 253 | *ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, POLICY, AND ECONOMICS | 4 |
AEC 351 | *NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS AND POLICY | 3 |
AEC 352 | *ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY | 3 |
Additional credits 1 | 14 | |
Total Credits | 27-28 |
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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)
- 1
Students will work with the academic advisor in the Department of Applied Economics to select additional courses for a total of 27 credits
Minor Code: 962